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October 2019

1 Oct

Azure DevOps – Assignment-based billing and other new features

NOW AVAILABLE

In the latest update of Azure DevOps, we've added user assignment-based billing. With this feature, the number of Basic or Basic + Test Plan licences will change as you add or remove users. This means that you’ll only pay for the licences you’re using. We’ve also added a new setting that lets you choose whether new users get full Basic access or limited/free Stakeholder access. See the list of new features for more information.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

September 2019

6 Sep

Updates to Azure DevOps and App Service improvements

NOW AVAILABLE

In the sprint 157 update of Azure DevOps, we added rollup columns to backlogs that let you track progress across work item hierarchies (for example, epics/features/user stories). We also added multiple improvements for deploying Azure App Service apps.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

August 2019

15 Aug

New enhancements to Azure Boards are now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Boards has new items that can help enhance your experience. For example, you can now customise system picklist values such as severity, activity and priority. In addition, rule support is now available for setting fields to read-only or required based on group membership. Finally, there’s a new extension that will allow you to create cascading picklists on your work item form.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

July 2019

31 Jul

Azure DevOps Roadmap update for Q3 of 2019

IN DEVELOPMENT

The engineering team behind Azure DevOps is constantly at work delivering enhancements and new features across our services. We recently added new capabilities at an unprecedented pace for Azure DevOps. The highlights listed below are just a few of the new features coming in the next few months. Visit the DevOps feature timeline for a complete list.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
26 Jul

New Analytics reports and Azure Boards app available for Slack

NOW AVAILABLE

In the Sprint 155 update of Azure DevOps, we are introducing new Azure Boards reports to make it easier for you to track important team metrics. You will see the new reports under the Analytics tab in the Boards, Backlog and Sprint hubs.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
5 Jul

Azure DevOps adds new features including bi-directional traceability between Releases and Jira issues

NOW AVAILABLE

We are releasing the Azure Pipelines for Jira app to the Atlassian marketplace. The integration adds links to Jira issues as work items deployed with the releases and allows you to view deployment details directly in Jira issues.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

June 2019

21 Jun

View linked GitHub activity from the Kanban board

NOW AVAILABLE

We continue to enhance the Azure Boards integration with GitHub. Now you can get information of your linked GitHub commits, pull requests and issues on your Kanban board. This information will give you a quick sense of where an item is and allow you to directly navigate out to the GitHub commit, pull request or issue for more details.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

May 2019

23 May

Filter by target branch in pull requests

NOW AVAILABLE

In the Sprint 152 Update of Azure DevOps, we added the option to filter pull requests by target branch, several new command line commands and an extensibility point to allow extensions to add syntax highlighting and autocomplete to the file explorer and pull request views.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
16 May

Kubernetes integration with Azure pipelines is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now use GitHub identity to login into the Azure DevOps portal. In addition, you can take your GitHub repo all the way to Kubernetes using a YAML-based multistage pipeline.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure Pipelines
  • Features
6 May

Visual Studio subscription with GitHub Enterprise offering

NOW AVAILABLE

The native integrations of GitHub Enterprise with Visual Studio and Azure DevOps make it easier and faster for your development teams to adopt Git.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
6 May

Azure now supports GitHub identity single sign-on

NOW AVAILABLE

GitHub identities are now supported as sign-in option to log in to Azure. An existing Microsoft account is no longer needed to sign in to Azure.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Features
6 May

Azure now supports GitHub identity single sign-on

NOW AVAILABLE

GitHub identities are now supported as sign-in option to log in to Azure. An existing Microsoft account is no longer needed to sign in to Azure.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Features
2 May

Azure Pipelines app for Teams, improved GitHub and Azure Boards integration: Sprint 151 update

NOW AVAILABLE

In the Sprint 151 Update of Azure DevOps, we improved GitHub integration with Azure Boards by adding a GitHub Marketplace app to streamline the acquisition and configuration with your GitHub repositories.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

April 2019

11 Apr

Manage organisation billing in Azure DevOps: Sprint 150 Update

NOW AVAILABLE

In the Sprint 150 Update of Azure DevOps, we added the ability to manage billing for your organisation within our portal.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

March 2019

19 Mar

Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines GitHub integration improvements – Sprint 149 update

NOW AVAILABLE

In the Sprint 149 update of Azure DevOps, we added the ability to navigate to Azure Boards directly from mentions in a GitHub comment, as well as adding support for Azure Boards in GitHub Enterprise.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

February 2019

27 Feb

Azure DevOps CLI preview and feature updates in Pipelines – Sprint 148 Update

NOW AVAILABLE

In the Sprint 148 Update of Azure DevOps, we added a new CLI extension that allows you to interact with Azure DevOps services by using the command line.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
14 Feb

Azure DevOps Roadmap update for 2019 Q1

IN DEVELOPMENT

We updated the Features Timeline to provide visibility on our key investments for this quarter.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
6 Feb

NuGet, npm and other Artifacts tasks support proxies – Sprint 147 Update

NOW AVAILABLE

In the Sprint 147 Update of Azure DevOps, we’ve updated artefacts-related Pipelines tasks to support proxies. Proxies now work in the npm, NuGet, .NET Core and Universal Packages tasks.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

January 2019

15 Jan

GitHub Enterprise support and automatic GitHub service connections in pipelines – Sprint 146 Update

NOW AVAILABLE

In the Sprint 146 Update of Azure DevOps, we improved our GitHub integration with Azure Pipelines. The “New build pipeline” wizard can now create pipelines for GitHub Enterprise repositories.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features

December 2018

4 Dec

Link GitHub commits and pull requests to Azure Boards work items – Sprint 144 Update

NOW AVAILABLE

In the Sprint 144 Update of Azure DevOps, we continue to expand the integration with GitHub. Now you can link GitHub commits and pull requests to Azure Boards work items.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
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